Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] full time photogs
From: John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 21:23:56 -0600

Why bother switching if what you are using works? It is the resulting 
images that count, not the process(es) to make them. I plan on using 
Tri-X for a long time as it works for me too.

John Collier

On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 04:32 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> But here's the reality, folks, sad as it may be....If you are shooting 
> for
> newspapers or magazines, there is no longer an image quality advantage 
> in
> using Leica gear - if there ever was. Today's digital equipment is 
> producing
> images that when printed in newspapers and magazines cannot, even by the
> most dedicated Leicaholic, be distinguished from the best film/Leica 
> images,
> simply because the reproduction isn't good enough. As to print produced 
> from
> digital, certainly up to 8x10, at any normal viewing distance, digital
> output is going to equal film. And there are those who will argue it 
> will
> equal it well beyond that.

> snip

> But the gloomy night at the end of the tunnel is now in full view.
>
> And I say that as someone who has NOT even started the transition to
> digital...I'm still fully-wed to Tri-X, Ms and my F100s.

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